A public learning journey on the future of construction.

I'm Jason Jacobs. I was founder/CEO of Runkeeper (acquired by ASICS), and spent many years as founder/managing partner of MCJ, a venture capital firm backing technology companies accelerating the energy transition.

MCJ was a public learning journey before it was a fund. BuiltForward started the same way, as a learning journey on how AI would and wouldn't transform construction.

A few months in, the further I get, the less I'm thinking about AI. Construction businesses face enormous demands on their people, and many have grown successfully without the organizational infrastructure that larger companies take for granted. Building that infrastructure takes skills, resources, and time that are hard to come by when everyone is busy running the business.

The questions I'm most interested in now are how owners grow beyond what they can do alone, how strong operators become owners, and what the next generation of these businesses looks like.

Each week, I bring on someone well placed to teach me: owners and operators, and the people who work with them. The podcast is my learning journey, but it's for anyone who wants to get up to speed.

Not sure where this is going to go, but it's going to be fun!